WEDDING CAKES.
Wedding cake was an institution among the ancients as with us but the cake was a plain one and was broken above the head of the bride as she went into her new home. This was a special feature of Roman marriages 2000 years ago. The breaking of the cake was part of a solemn ceremony, and was said to be very impressive. A similar custom prevails in some portions of Scotland, where a bannock is broken above the head of the young wife as she for the first time enters her new home. In Queen Elizabeth's time spice cakes and buns were eaten at weddings. From these the fashion and fancy grew for all sorts of elaborate and delioioasly unwholesome combinations, as in the cake of to-day.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 September 1899, Page 27
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130WEDDING CAKES. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 September 1899, Page 27
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